Exhibition Details

Galleria Continua Paris Matignon presents Shapeshifting, a new solo exhibition by Loris Cecchini. Renowned for an interdisciplinary practice that brings together sculpture, installation and site-specific interventions, the artist explores the subtle interconnections between nature, science and poetry through the ever-changing conditions of matter. In this new project, Cecchini proposes an investigation of metamorphosis as a generative principle: a narrative in which form is never fixed, but in a constant state of becoming.
The title, Shapeshifting, is not only a thematic statement but the conceptual thread that runs throughout the entire show. The artist stages a universe in which formal identities transform, hybridising in a continuous exchange between organic and artificial, micro and macro, structure and fluid. Visitors are invited to enter an environment where matter seems to shape itself in real time, following the same dynamic forces that mould natural landscapes, biological growth and wave phenomena.
The project brings together, for the first time, a broad and stratified body of works: from the Aeolian Landforms, monochrome surfaces evoking wind-shaped dunes, to the vibrant Wallwave Vibrations, where the wall comes alive with invisible tensions; from the Laminascapes, which amplify vegetal structures into a silver-leaf landscape and Frictions, where aluminium spheres simulate molecular and cosmic processes.
Alongside these established series, a new body of work, Penumbra, has been conceived specifically for this occasion. Here, modular steel structures enter into direct dialogue with living plants, introducing an element of unpredictability: organic growth resists and reconfigures the logic of artificial expansion. The term 'penumbra' thus becomes an ontological condition, a zone of indeterminacy in which the boundaries between natural and artificial, control and autonomy, dissolve into a relational and unstable field.
The entire exhibition is permeated by a unifying principle: that of transformation as a lexicon. Cecchini does not represent nature but simulates its generative principles. In this sense, Shapeshifting takes shape as a single, complex organism in flux. Light, colour and texture act as perceptual and emotional vectors, continuously modulating the viewer’s gaze. Cecchini’s work occupies a threshold where matter, subjected to forces of erosion, growth or vibration, reveals its capacity to constantly negotiate between order and chaos, stasis and movement.
Here, Cecchini envisions reality as an open, dynamic system in constant flux. Shapeshifting is an invitation to enter a space where forms are never fixed, but rather reveal themselves as temporary events within an ongoing process of metamorphosis.